Posted by Dick on August 25, 2013 at 22:30:27 from (69.71.191.22):
In Reply to: My Amish Post posted by rusted nuts on August 25, 2013 at 13:02:48:
Several years ago I traveled to Lancaster County and noticed the rural roads that the Amish use were dished out on the right side of the lanes. Not from the buggy steel tires but from the hard surfacing on the horse shoes. Some roads were worse than others and at times made driving a car on those roads a bit of a challenge. The county or state would pave a strip over the dished out section to level up the lane again. I assumed this had to be done every few years. I also figured the Amish pay taxes, like everyone else so they have a right to wear out the roads too.
Where I live, we don't have Amish, we have studded tires from Oct. thru April that wear out our roads. On heavy traveled roads like interstate highways it is very noticeable. This again amounts to re-surfacing every few years. As for the horse shoes coming off on the road, yes it can cause flat tires, just like junk that comes off a pickup or trailer on the way to the dump. I guess it's kind of like if you lost a chunk of steel or scrap lumber off your load, would you go back and pick it up? Driving a horse and buggy you might not realize your horse has lost a shoe when it flies off. Then to find a place to tie the horse and walk back to retrieve the shoe so it can be nailed back on, isn't too likely. For the horse owner, it's a lot cheaper to have the shoe nailed back on than to start with a new shoe. Things happen to all of us and most of the time it isn't deliberate.
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